The new 49ers football stadium still under construction in Santa Clara was selected today by the NFL to host the Super Bowl in 2016.
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Any history is an oversimplification, but a significant amount of comic-book history was made by two of the guests at this weekend’s Big Wow! ComicFest in San Jose. The festival—at this point the Bay Area’s biggest gathering of the thousands of local comic-book, science- and speculative-fiction fans—was formerly known as Super-Con. That name was borrowed by parties in another state; Big Wow!‘s convention manager Steven Wyatt says, “We have taken the name ‘festival’ to heart and are trying to have more events going on.”
Opening a sports bar in north San Jose near Brokaw Road and 880 seemed like a good idea to Steve Driggs because there really wasn’t much like it in the area. Indeed, after only two months, sports fans in the area have already claimed Driggsy’s as their neighborhood hangout. The bar occupies the former Carlos Goldstein’s Mexican restaurant, but Driggs and his wife changed the layout a bit by knocking out the interior walls. Now it’s a wide-open space with several tables, a bar, a couple dart boards and about eight different TVs broadcasting sports.
Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch founded Gordon Biersch in 1988 with the goal of making the most authentic German-style lagers outside of Germany. Twenty-five years later, Gordon reflects, “I can’t believe it, actually. When Dean and I started, we never thought 25 years. Being here, having the brewery in San Jose where I was born in an area where I had my college job working in the canneries located around it, it’s so hard to believe that this actually happened.”
Serl’s oil paintings (mostly on board rather than canvas) often depict amorphous figures of both people and animals with free-flowing, almost liquefied outlines. The large Others Someplace Else (late 1980s) conjures up a lost world in which three ochre and yellow imaginary dinosaurs cavort in front of a mountain range beneath of swirling blue and white sky that would do a well-schooled Impressionist proud.
The Willow Glen place is the brainchild of Craig Guynes, whose knack for all things seafood stems from a childhood in the Chesapeake Bay, “spending hours cracking blue crab and watching the Redskins lose,” he recounted with a smile. For years, to satisfy his personal cravings, he had been shipping the blue crab to California. Blue crab, of course, is on the menu, along with Dungeness, snow, king and stone, all at market price.
Not a lot of dishes have an organization dedicated to preserving their historical authenticity. Pizza does, or at least Neapolitan pizza—the original modern version of pizza that came out of Naples, Italy, in the 1800s. The organization, Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, hands out certifications to restaurants all over the world that meet their very specific guidelines as to what constitutes a genuine Neapolitan pizza. Here in the Bay Area, only a handful of restaurants are so certified. One of them, Terrone Pizzeria, a casual upscale joint, was opened a few weeks ago in Palo Alto by three friends, all of whom were born in Southern Italy.
One of several new restaurants and bars to arrive on South First Street in downtown San Jose, Nemea Greek Taverna distinguishes itself with both location and cuisine. The restaurant sits at the corner of E. San Fernando and South First streets, where E&O Trading Company used to operate.
For those looking to tour Silicon Valley’s tech industry landmarks, most of the magic happens behind closed doors in private offices. However, visitors can easily find points of interest on a driving tour of some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech company campuses, and a few offer attractions that our worth a quick stop.
Hyped as a rematch of David vs. Goliath, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero plays the role of an unassuming, God-fearing underdog when he takes on the motor-mouth king of boxing, Floyd “Money” Mayweather. Their Las Vegas superfight, this Saturday at 6pm on Showtime (pay-per-view), has been in the making ever since Mayweather signed a new contract in February with the cable network.
